Quantitative Trader & Strategist — Indian Equity Derivatives (F&O)

Quantitative Trader & Strategist — Indian Equity Derivatives (F&O)

Location: Ahmedabad (Hybrid is fine)

Company: PeoplecultureHR

Compensation: Top-of-market base + leading profit-share

Responsibility

The Role We are a premier family office based in Ahmedabad, managing a significant 9-figure corpus. We are seeking an exceptional Quantitative Trader and Strategist to architect, deploy, and manage a sophisticated portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies in the Indian equity derivatives (F&O) market. This is a high-impact role with a direct mandate to generate alpha. You will own the entire strategy lifecycle, from initial research and back-testing to live execution, optimization, and risk management. The ideal candidate is deeply attuned to market micro-structure, thrives on intellectual curiosity, and possesses a proven track record of profitability.

What You’ll Do

● Research & Build: Design, backtest, and productionize 2+ distinct strategies per quarter, with rigorous hypothesis formation, data curation, and out-of-sample validation.

● Optimize Continuously: Monitor live PnL, slippage, borrow/fees, and capacity; iterate models, parameters, and execution to improve edge.

● Portfolio Management: Add/prune strategies based on capital efficiency, correlation, and regime fit; enforce kill-switches and guardrails.

● Execution Excellence: Architect and refine execution logic (venue selection, order types, microstructure-aware routing) to minimize impact and costs.

● Risk Management: Define limits (gross/net, exposure, DD, VaR), stress scenarios, and disaster-recovery playbooks; ensure auditability and reproducibility.

● Market Adaptability: Anticipate/act on Indian market microstructure changes (e.g., expiry cycles, lot sizes, margin norms, liquidity shifts).

● Collaboration: Work with infra/engineering for data pipelines, low-latency components, and monitoring; document thoroughly.

Must Have

Must possess a portfolio of proven MFT/LFT strategies ready for immediate implementation upon joining.

Success Metrics (Your Scorecard)

● Alpha & Stability: Sharpe / Sortino, hit-rate, turnover-adjusted returns, capacity utilization.

● Risk Discipline: Max drawdown, tail-risk containment, breach-free limit adherence.

● Execution Quality: Realized vs. model slippage, fill quality, rejection/error rates, downtime.

● Throughput: Strategies launched per quarter that pass post-live validation. Compensation

● Highly competitive base + top-tier profit share aligned to strategy PnL and risk-adjusted performance. No bureaucracy—clear, formula-driven.

Application Share your CV and a brief on one strategy you’ve built (redact IP): hypothesis, data, backtest design, live results, and key lessons on Rahul@peopleculturehr.com

Please use the below link to process your application:

https://form.jotform.com/251665319238462